ACLA Marks 25 Years of Fighting for Racial Justice and Equity

May 2025 — This year marks the 25th anniversary of the Asian Canadian Labour Alliance (ACLA) — a milestone that honours a quarter-century of grassroots organizing, advocac, and unwavering commitment to building racial justice, inclusive workplaces, and representation in Canada’s labour movement. Established in 2000, ACLA has grown into a national voice for Asian Canadian … Read more

ACLA Statement for Asian Heritage Month 2022

To our beloved Asian relatives:We stand in solidarity with you.Our commitment begins with healing our relations and walking the path of reconciliation.Because we also come from colonized places of wounded relations.We are rooted in the immutable truth that restoring the justice of Indigenous peoples is fundamental to our liberation.We honour and raise the voices of … Read more

Uprooting the racism in our ranks

By Stephanie Fung, Anna Liu, Karine Ng, and Chris Ramsaroop, The Monitor – Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives https://monitormag.ca/articles/uprooting-the-racism-in-our-ranks Race-motivated hate crimes have surged during the pandemic. But these crimes only scratch the surface of the multiple forms of racism that racialized communities have endured during the pandemic. Read the full article here.

CLC Leadership All Candidates Forum: Moving the Racial Justice Agenda Forward

Monday, May 31, 2021 from 7:00-8:00 p.m. EDTWatch the recording here. The Asian Canadian Labour Alliance (with chapters in British Columbia and Ontario) and the Coalition of Black Trade Unionists – Canada are holding a forum for all candidates vying for the leadership positions of the Canadian Labour Congress. Given the current challenges faced by … Read more

Event – A Conversation about Anti-Blackness: A Dialogue for self-identified East and South East Asians

August 27, 2020 from 4:30-6:00 PM EDT. Register here. ***NOTE: This is a focused webinar discussion organized for community members who self-identify as East and Southeast Asian. Are We Complicit? Join us for a conversation where we’ll be discussing anti-Blackness among East and South East Asian communities and how this can perpetuate anti-Black racism in … Read more

Solidarity with Wet’suwet’en

The Asian Canadian Labour Alliance (ACLA) stands in solidarity with the Wet’suwet’en peoples and allies currently resisting the attempts by the Canadian colonial state to extract natural resources and to infringe on the aspirations and desires of the Wet’suwet’en people’s on their unceded territory by poisoning their land, their water and destroying their way of … Read more